Universidad de Buenos Aires - UBA Speciality : Politics
programme: Politics and Sociology

One of the highlights of UBA has to do with the methodological and epistemological insights. They value critical thinking in a way I never thought could be achieved in a University. The counterpart is that the amount of reading material is massive. The lectures are really cohesive and open to long debates that enrich their professors and students.

On the other side, the infrastructure is in really bad shape. The bathrooms are dirty and the classrooms cold. Also, its internal bureaucracy functions very slowly and it’s not yet fully digitalized. It has to do with budget issues mainly but it really makes the University experience hard sometimes.

Another thing that I value a lot it’s the organisational capacity of the students. Mainly the way in which we address controversial issues and take practical action to make things better. And we often achieve it!

In conclusion, I think that the good qualities of the University make up for the ones that are not so good. And the only way to change things is by staying and working to make a better environment for future students.